Commencement Addresses

Commencement Addresses

Dr. R. Gen

"... the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy at Yale Commencement 1962

Conan O'Brian - (2011) Dartmouth

Peyton Manning - (2014) University of Virginia

Steve Jobs - (2005) Stanford

Sonia Sotomayor (2012) NYU

Tim Cook - (2019) Stanford (start 1:09)

Bill Clinton - (2016) LMU (start 1:08)

Howard Schultz - (2017) Arizona State

Matt Damon - (2016) MIT

Neil deGrasse Tyson - (2013) Rice University

Ken Burns - (2015) Washington University in St. Louis

Walter Isaacson - (2013) Pomona

Stephen Colbert - (2013) University of Virginia

J.K. Rowling - (2011) Harvard

Dick Costolo - (2013) University of Michigan

Julie Andrews - (2013) Colorado University

Tom Hanks - (2011) Yale

Ellen Degeneres - (2009) Tulane

Salman Khan - (2012) Rice University

Linda Greenlaw - (2013) Gould Academy

Steve Ballmer - (2014) USC

Neil deGrasse Tyson - (2012) Western New England University

Ed Helm - (2015) University of Virginia

Robert deNiro - (2015) NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Oprah Winfrey - (2013) Harvard University

Peter Dinklage - (2012) Bennington College

Ken Burns - (2016) Stanford University

Stephen Colbert - (2015) Wake Forest University

Jay Leno - (2014) Emerson College

Steven Spielberg - (2016) Harvard

Katherine Johnson (2017) Hampton University

Maz Jobrani - (2017) UC Berkeley

Taylor Swift (2022) NYU (start 2:50:45)